Pan lifter



. I K J. JOHNSSON PAN LIFTER Filed Jan. 15, 1925 lNVENTOQ ATTORNEY Patented Aug. 18, 1925.

UNITED STATES K. JOHN J'OHNSSON, OF RAINY LAKE, ONTARIO, CANADA.

PAN LIFTER.

Application filed January 15, 1925. Serial No. 2,583.

T0! all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, K. JOHN J OHNSSON, a subject of the King of Sweden, residing at Rainy Lake, in the Province of Ontario, in

the Dominion of Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pan Lifters, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in 1 pan lifters and its object is to provide a simple, practical device for lifting and transporting pans or plates of different sizes and thicknesses.

With the foregoing and other objects in view the invention consists in the combination and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter fully described, pointed out in the appended claims and illustrated in the accompanying drawing which forms a part of this application and in which- Fig. 1 is a view of the lifter in side elevation illustrating its application.

Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the lifter.

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary view showing a plate carried by the lifter.

Like reference characters denote corresponding parts throughout the several views.

The reference numeral 1 denotes a fulcrum bar having one curved end and a handle 2 at its opposite end. To the curved extremity of the bar 1 a substantially L- shaped rocker bar 3 is secured by the pivot 4, one end of said bar 3 merging into the divergent prongs 5 and the opposite end link 7 to the fulcrum bar 1, a washer 1O spacing one end of said link 9 from the link 7.

A pin 11 carried by the fulcrum bar extends through an enlongated slot 12 formed in an intermediate link 13 the free end of which terminates in the prongs 14, the opposite end of said link being connected by pivot 15 to the rocker bar 3. The links 13 and 7 co-operate with the pronged end of the rocker bar 3 to support the pan or plate lifted.

To lift a pan 16 the prongs of the bar 3 are placed beneath the same and the prongs of the bar 7 in engagement with the pan rim. The weight of the pan will cause the lifter to keep its hold upon the pan which may then be transported as desired. A plate 17 will be engaged by the rocker bar 3 and link 13 as shown in Fig. 3.

What is claimed is 1. In a pan lifter, a fulcrum bar having one curved end, a pronged rocker bar supported by said fulcrum bar, a pronged link I connected to said rocker bar, .a link connecting said pronged link and fulcrum bar, and an intermediate link pivotally connected to said rocker bar and slidably conneoted to said fulcrum bar.

2. In a pan lifter a. fulcrum bar having one curved end, a handle at the opposite end of said bar, an L-shaped rocker bar pivoted to said fulcrum bar and formed with divergent prongs at one end, a pronged link pivoted to the opposite end of said rocker bar, a short link connecting said pronged link and the said fulcrum bar, and an intermediate link pronged at its free extremity, pivoted to said rocker bar and slidably connected to said fulcrum bar.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature.

K. JOHN JOHNSSON. 

